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"I like home. It's warm and there are books."

"Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go."

"I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight."

"I think we're a deeper team, a better team, we still have work to do... nothing is guaranteed, but hopefully we got the mentality to play on the road, and we're starting to get our home thing back in order now-if we can do that we'll be just fine."
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"Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of."


"The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just."


"Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography."


"All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold."


"You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish."


"There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that."


"Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted."


"You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed."
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